The push to regard addiction as a disease is well-intentioned—driven by a desire to lessen stigma—but fails to account for the many facets and facts of the condition. Worse, it robs sufferers ...

In the United States an epidemic of opioid addiction continues to get worse. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a record 33,091 overdose deaths in 2015 from opioids ...

We don’t celebrate recovery. And we shame addiction, something that medical and psychology associations agree is a brain disease, based on evidence and science. Those are among the concerns of ...

Then again, there are people with seemingly no substance abuse history in their family, yet they still somehow formed an addiction. The definition of disease is a disorder of structure or ...

And unlike most of the media and the addiction-treatment industry, they usually don’t think of it as a “brain disease.” That way of understanding addiction became popular after Alan I.

The brain is set to stay stuck in its habit. But, unlike in disease, the brain changes that occur in addiction are not a malfunction of biology. Rather, the changes reflect the brain’s normal ...

All I did was lie to myself and everyone else. Addiction is a disease of the mind. It makes you wear a mask, creates a false reality, and convinces you that you’re okay while the world around ...

As with most chronic conditions such as heart failure and kidney disease, most people with addiction—including alcohol—get better once connected to treatment and care. “One of the reasons ...